Sports COACH PREDICTS A BETTER YEAR October 8, 2003 By Kelly Todd This year’s women’s basketball team is already doing better than last year, according to head coach Sandie Pothier. Despite the absence of last year’s most valuable player and team captain, Teaka Grizzle, Pothier believes the team will be just as competitive. “Teaka’s presence will obviously be missed but we have a very […]
Sports Other side of the fence October 1, 2003 By Glynnis Mapp Walk past the Ryerson lower gym’s last doors, push past various intimidating swords and equipment bags, and in a little office under the stairs, you’ll find a smiling, former Soviet National fencing coach. Iosef Mirkin has coached the Ryerson varsity fencing team for over five years. But before that, fencing took him […]
Sports MVP HANGS HER JERSEY October 1, 2003 By Crystal Simmonds Teaka Grizzle, last years M.V.P and women’s athlete of the year will not be returning to the hardwood this season. “I got too much on my plate right now. I have to prioritize,” said Grizzle. In spite of her passion for the game, her focus became finding a good job, finding an […]
Sports CAJ NOMINATED: WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU RAM October 1, 2003 By Joel Wass Six months ago he was nominated for male athlete of the year. Today, the most time Anton Hauser spends at Ryerson is while he bikes by campus on his way to work at the Hard Rock Cafe. “It’s really frustrating,” says the former men’s volleyball MVP of his current academic hiatus. “I […]
Sports Luke, like your father September 12, 2003 A key player on the Rams Volleyball team follows his father, and coach down the road of injury
Sports Best soccer player ever? April 2, 2003 The Ryerson men’s soccer team may finally have a saviour to lead them — they just don’t know he exists.
Sports Athletics to swimmers: Go jump in a lake March 12, 2003 Ryerson’s swim team could be left high and dry if a proposed re-organization of inter-university sport is adopted by the school’s athletic department.
Sports Rams dealt capital punishment March 5, 2003 Errol Fraser’s best was not enough to beat the best as the Ryerson men’s basketball team was eliminated from the Ontario University Athletic playoffs last Saturday.
Sports Rams fan says she was assaulted March 5, 2003 A Ryerson basketball player’s girlfriend claims she was assaulted by an opposing fan during the second-half of the Rams playoff basketball game at Carleton University Saturday.
Sports Rams’ year of misery ends March 3, 2003 By Jason Primo For the first time in 15 years, the Ryerson men’s basketball team failed to win a game all season. Ryerson’s streak of making the playoffs for 11 straight years is also finished. “I thought we would have a better season. I knew things would be tough but I didn’t expect to lose […]
Sports Chinese culture ram-ming February 5, 2003 By Fatima Najm More than 100,000 Torontonians took $9 detour to china last weekend to celebrate the lunar New Year at Exhibition Place. As dragons and drums ushered in the New Year amidst a flurry of red and gold, a sea of people, mostly members of Toronto’s diverse Asian community, roamed the 275 stalls in […]